- 1854 William and Frederick Langenheim take eight sequential photographs of the first total eclipse of the sun visible in North America since the invention of photography [1]
Dracula Published
1897 "Dracula" by Irish author Bram Stoker is published by Archibald Constable and Company in London
- 1899 Lifts for the recently opened Eiffel Tower are ready, offering an option other than 1,710 steps, for visitors to get to top
- 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock and their children become the first family to travel across the United States by car, driving from Los Angeles to New York City in a Packard Thirty in 32 days, 5 hours, and 25 minutes
- 1913 Emily Duncan becomes one of the UK's first female magistrates, authorized to act in ‘lunacy matters’ at the workhouse in West Ham, London [1]
1927 Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15 millionth) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie
- 1943 Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes the first president of an African nation to visit the US
- 1969 Apollo 10 astronauts return to Earth
Bed-In for Peace
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1970 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport aircraft to exceed Mach 2
- 1977 George Willig climbs the South Tower of NYC's World Trade Center, famously fined 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
- 1989 American radio broadcasters go silent for 30 seconds at 7:42 am to honor the radio industry
Home Run Off the Head
1993 In Major League Baseball, Carlos Martinez famously hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run
The Eminem Show
2002 Eminem releases his 4th studio album "The Eminem Show" (2002 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award Best Rap Album 2003)
- 2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars
- 2003 Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours and 56 minutes. Nepal’s tourism ministry confirms the record in July.
- 2022 A Hindi novel "Tomb of Sand," written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize for the first time [1]
ABBA Voyage
2022 Premiere of "ABBA Voyage," a virtual concert featuring computer-generated images of the Swedish pop band and live musicians at the specially built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena in London, England; all four members, as well as the King and Queen of Sweden, attend
